Month: February 2017

We have BIG NEWS. This past summer, we applied for the MacArthur Foundation’s 100 & Change competition, a contest in which one applicant will be awarded 100 million dollars to solve “a critical problem of our time”. In case you didn’t catch that number, we’ll repeat: one hundred million dollars towards the philanthropic or academic venture…

In a continual effort to put a “face” to Rice 360°, we sat down with student Renata Wettermann ’17 last week. She’s an incredibly inspiring student and is on the fast track to great things. Renata, a senior from Palatine, Illinois, is a Health Sciences, Biochemistry, and Global Health Technologies major at Rice. She’s headed to Baylor…

Good morning! This post has a dual purpose: (1) we’d like to introduce our first guest blogger, Matt Petney. We may have coerced him into being a guest blogger, but he provides invaluable insight about what is happening over in the design studio in Malawi. Matt works with the faculty at the University of Malawi Polytechnic…

Welcome global health enthusiasts to Rice 360°’s new blog! Thank you for your support — whether you’ve been part of our family of supporters for some time or if this is your first time checking us out! At Rice 360°, we provide students with the opportunity to design effective, low-cost global health tools for low-resource…